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Year of the Priest Begins Friday
ncr ^ | June 14, 2009 | Tim Drake

Posted on 06/14/2009 5:42:16 AM PDT by NYer

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1 posted on 06/14/2009 5:42:16 AM PDT by NYer
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To: NYer

I sure wish you had designated this thread “Catholic Caucus.”


2 posted on 06/14/2009 5:44:17 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
Prayers for Priests

Let your light so shine before men that, seeing your good works, they may glorify your Father in Heaven.
-- Matthew 5:16

Icon of the Priesthood (Monsignor Anthony La Femina)
Monsignor Anthony LaFemina, who created the icon of the Priesthood, tells us that the Diocese of Charleston has copies of the icon.
For information, write or call the Charleston chancery office:
Andrea Crawford, Administrative Assistant,
119 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29402.
Phone: (843) 853-2130

Year for Priests - June 19, 2009-2010


3 posted on 06/14/2009 5:44:45 AM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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Cool.


4 posted on 06/14/2009 6:01:14 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I just had a baby, so I may not respond to your post. Nothing personal.)
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Gotta let the priests marry. I would think that would improve recruitung about 1000%. Female priests too. Don’t know what they’re waiting for.


5 posted on 06/14/2009 6:35:39 AM PDT by strider44
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Gotta let the priests marry. I would think that would improve recruitung about 1000%. Female priests too. Don’t know what they’re waiting for.

Sacred Tradition to be revoked?

There are married priests in the eastern rites, just not the Latin. And females - no, we have a different, but no less important, place. This is Sacred Tradition, what has been passed down from Christ, through His Apostles and Apostolic Succession.

Actually, in places, like here, where the seminary is good and orthodox and they do things as Tradition handed it down, we're ordaining plenty.

6 posted on 06/14/2009 7:27:32 AM PDT by Desdemona (Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue. http://www.thekingsmen.us/)
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To: strider44

Thinking in human/worldly ways will not promote God’s plan one iota.


7 posted on 06/14/2009 7:32:25 AM PDT by tioga
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To: strider44

Sigh. What do I do to attract these types?


8 posted on 06/14/2009 7:34:14 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I just had a baby, so I may not respond to your post. Nothing personal.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Times change my friend. Sorry you think my opinion is BS. My father entered the seminary at Boston College in the the 60’s. He was discouraged by the overwhelming amount of homosexuals he encountered and thank god for me made his choice to leave.

I’m not bashing the church, I just don’t see the harm in ordaining women and more married men. Explain to me how it “harms” the church. Don’t just say it’s tradition and can’t be changed. Slavery was tradition for a long time. Women not being able to vote was a tradition for a long time. Polygamy, etc etc etc.

Question: If the church allowed more married men and women to be ordained, would this encourage more people to join the Catholic church or cause people to leave?

IMHO I think it’s the former.


10 posted on 06/14/2009 8:22:34 AM PDT by strider44
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To: strider44

You seem to have some weird ideas about Catholic priests. Are you a Catholic?

Celibacy will survive; in fact it is flourishing. And there won’t be any woman priests either. Those who did false ordinations or those women who were ordained have been excommunicated as far as I know.


11 posted on 06/14/2009 8:58:04 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: Petronski

Me too!


12 posted on 06/14/2009 8:59:55 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: NYer
Year of the Priest Begins Friday
U.S. bishops launch website for Year for Priests
13 posted on 06/14/2009 9:01:37 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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Theme

Jesus, High Priest

Jesus, High Priest

 About the Icon


14 posted on 06/14/2009 9:02:25 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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I’m not bashing the church...

Noooooooo, not at all.

15 posted on 06/14/2009 9:04:31 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: strider44

There is no such thing as “women priests”, just like there is no such thing as “men priestesses”. The theological arguments aside, female clergy in the Catholic Church would be priestesses, just like the men are priests. A woman who calls herself “a woman priest” does so for wacky feminist reasons as far as I can figure, because it really is just as weird as a man calling himself a priestess. Also, the word “priestess” has bad connotations of various pagan religions in the western mind, and these women are worried about folks associating them with that, which is pretty wimpy in my opinion if you truly think women can be clergy in the Church.

Liberalism has hurt the Church more than not letting married men become priests in the latin rite, or not having priestesses. Can you point me to one woman who wants to call herself a “woman priest” in the Church who isn’t a wacky lib on issues such as gay marriage and abortion? Theology aside, allowing priestesses would only compound the problems of the Church by making it more liberal because there would be more liberal clergy.

Freegards


16 posted on 06/14/2009 9:26:25 AM PDT by Ransomed (Son of Ransomed Says Keep the Faith!)
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I’m convinced that - at least in the Baptist and (silent women, no instruments) Church of Christ that the men drive any woman who attempts to follow the Holy Ghost’s lead in prophecy and teaching.

On the other hand, because of my “raising,” I’m still very uncomfortable with any woman who calls herself a preacher.


17 posted on 06/14/2009 9:29:43 AM PDT by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org (I've got a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.))
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“I’m convinced that - at least in the Baptist and (silent women, no instruments) Church of Christ that the men drive any woman who attempts to follow the Holy Ghost’s lead in prophecy and teaching.”

I’m not sure what you mean here. Did you mean to say “drive away any woman...”?

Well, I know in my church nothing would get done without the women. And women sure do teach, although not as clergy, but in rel.ed classes and such. Sometimes that’s a good thing and sometimes not I reckon.

All I know is that every Catholic woman who wants to be clergy in the Catholic Church or that thinks women clergy should be allowed is a lib it seems like. I think it is different for non-Catholics who think priestesses should be allowed, I reckon they might see it as simple justice without realizing what kind of wackos want to be “women priests”.

Freegards


18 posted on 06/14/2009 10:30:33 AM PDT by Ransomed (Son of Ransomed Says Keep the Faith!)
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To: Salvation

Yes I’m Catholic. I see no harm in questioning some of the churches policies. I’m not banging down doors and protesting, just stating my opinion.


19 posted on 06/14/2009 10:57:13 AM PDT by strider44
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To: Petronski

How have I bashed the church? Is it not a fact that the Catholic church has a problem with homosexual priests? I just stated my opinion as to how the church could try some new things. I conveyed a true story of how someone in many family was turned off the church because of the strong presence of gays in the seminary. Yes, this is an uncomfortable truth. The church remains a powerful force for good, but you’re kidding yourself if you think these problems don’t exist.


20 posted on 06/14/2009 11:01:44 AM PDT by strider44
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